Game-counter



(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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CHARLES FEARON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME-COUNTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,428, dated April 3,1888.

Application filed December 13, 1886. Serial No. 221,417. (No model.)

zen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, Stateof Pennsyl- Vania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Game-Counters, which improvement is fully set forth inthe following specification and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1represents a top or plan view of a game-counter embodying my invention.Fig. 2 represents a transverse section thereof in line at a, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

My invention consists of a game counter formed of a body having pivotedthereto indicators designating the different suits of apack ofplaying-cards.

Italso consists of the body of the counter provided with indices for thenumber of games and points of a game, the construction of the body andindices being hereinafter fully set forth.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the body of a game-counterformed of any suitable material and having marked on its face two seriesof numbers, as at B and O, for the number of games and thepointsthereof. The body has in its upper face a longitudinally-extendingrecess, D, and above the same the slots E,which extend parallel withsaid recess, leaving the bars F G G for the support of the sliding in- Idices H, the latter being bent so as to have their heel ends beneath thebars G in the recess D,whereby the indices are connected with the plate,and as they are freely fitted in the slots E they may be moved to eitherof the numbers B C, respectively, for counting the number of games andthe number of points made.

To the side of the body A is pivoted a number of plates, J which are ofthe form of the trumps of a pack of cards-in the present case a spade,heart, club, and diamond; but, if desired, the form of said trumps maybe printed, painted, or otherwise marked on said plates.

It will be seen that the plates may be moved from vertical to horizontalplanes, and vice versa. Consequently, when a trump is made or announcedthe plate corresponding to the same is thrown up (or down, if preferredthus showing plainly to the players the nature of said trump.

Each index H is shown as made of two pieces of material; but, as isevident, it may be made of a single piece properly shaped and bent.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is- 6o 1. A game-counter having movableindices to indicate the number of games and points, and plates of theform of the different suits of a pack of playing-cards, hinged to theside of the counter to indicate the trump-suit, all as described.

2. A game-counter consisting of the body A, with a recess, slots, andbars, bent indices movably fitted to said bars, and trump-indicatingplates pivoted or hinged to said body, substantially as described.

CHAS. FEARON.

Witnesses:

J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. GRANT.

